#Andrew Dahling

[clubkidandcollectives]

[denimbex1986]

'What's your favourite film?

Punch Drunk Love, which is a Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson. It’s a really underrated, brilliant film. It’s very romantic but in quite a fucked-up way, and I love that. I love the films of Paul Thomas Anderson.

And your favourite book?

Danny the Champion of the World. What an amazing, magical book. As for an adult book, The God of Small Things makes me cry. It’s about siblings and I’m very close to my two sisters so that gets me every time.

The food you can't live without?

Chocolate. It’s an ongoing problem. Just cheap chocolate, like a Daily Milk Oreo. Have you had a Dairy Milk Oreo? it’s an absolutely incredible invention. It’s Oreo cookies, actually in a Dairy Milk. It’s just so addictive. I’ve got a real sweet tooth.

What music are you listening to at the moment?

At the moment I’m listening to a lot of Hozier, he’s brilliant. But I’ve got very wide ranging tastes and it really depends on my mood. Half the music in my iPod is completely cheese.

Your best thing in life?

Other people. I think you can survive anything, any of the success or whatever, if you’ve got really good people around you, laughing with them and going through life with them. That’s the best thing about life.'

[mikyapixie]

15 years ago today Fantastic Mr. Fox released in theaters!!!

Out of all of Wes Anderson’s works this will always be my favorite!!! I even still have the dvd 📀 of this movie in my room!!! So here’s one of my favorite parts of the movie!!!😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[bebe-benzenheimer]

Next up in literary editing: VC Andrews books are being edited to remove the incest and high gothic drama. All that is left over will be collected into one slim paperback.

[robynsassenmyview]

Oh, Charlie!

"Oh, Charlie!" a review of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', a ballet by Mario Gaglione at the Joburg Theatre until 13 October 2024.

SWEETS that can blow your mind! Ryoko Yagyu is Violet Beauregarde in the ballet, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is currently enjoying its world premiere at the Joburg Theatre, until 13 October 2024. Photograph by Lauge Sorenson. WHAT WOULD YOU do if you were lucky enough find one of five golden tickets that will offer you access to the heart of the best made chocolate in all the land?…

[donospl]

Europe Jazz Media Chart - Czerwiec 2024

Wybór nowości muzycznych, dokonany przez grupę czołowych europejskich magazynów i witryn jazzowych. A selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent by the top European jazz magazines and websites. The Beat Freaks & Ralph Alessi Mechanics of Nature (self-released) Krzysztof Komorek, Donos kulturalny, Polska Yelena Eckemoff Romance Of The Moon (L&H Production) Jacek Brun,…

[baseballjerseynumbers]

Spring Training:

Austin Brice assigned 31

David Dahl assigned 35

Símon Muzziotti assigned 40

Aramis Garcia assigned 41

Cal Stevenson assigned 47

Ricardo Pinto assigned 51

Ryan Burr assigned 60

Andrew Bellatti assigned 64

José Ruiz assigned 66

Nick Snyder assigned 78

[unplugstar]

Chappell Roan | makeup by andrew dahling

[ulrichgebert]

Wir haben uns auch ganz gut unterhalten, aber letzlich ohne herauszufinden, was das denn alles soll, durch die pompöse Fantasyserie His Dark Materials gearbeitet. Es ist sonderbarerweise eine messianische Heilgeschichte, in der die Aufgabe der messianischen Heilsbringer darin besteht, die Menschheit von ihrem kindischen Aberglauben an kirchliche Wahrheiten abzubringen und aufgeklärt und wissenschaftlich zu denken. Und das in diversen Welten, in denen es Engel und Dämonen (die aber etwas anderes sind als in unserer Welt, nämlich mehr oder weniger putzige Tierchen, die ihre Menschen begleiten), Hexen, magische Artefakte, ein Leben nach dem Tod, sowie als Alleinstellungsmerkmal gepanzerte sprechende Eisbären gibt. Und Staub. Gottseidank (bzw. natürlich dank einer streng wissenschaftlichen Herangehensweise) gelingt es den putzigen jugendlichen Heilsbringern, schließlich alle Welten zu retten, durch die Liebe, hurrah!, (doch am Ende ist selbstverständlich immer Verzicht), so daß der total wichtige verschwindende Staub wieder in die Welten zurückkehrt, zur Freude von Millionen Hausfrauen. Daß Autor Philip Pullmann, während wir das anschauten, in die Diskussion, ob Roald Dahls Bücher heutigen Befindlichkeiten entsprechend abgeändert werden sollen, mit dem hervorragenden Vorschlag eingriff, man sollte diese doch einfach gar nicht mehr auflegen, sondern stattdessen moderne Kinderbücher (wie seine, nehmen wir an) verkaufen, ließ ihn jetzt auch nicht total in unserem Ansehen steigen.

[clubkidandcollectives]

[hms-no-fun]

🔥homestuck but you can't talk about the post 2016 fandom

EXCELLENT caveat there anon

probably my hottest anodyne homestuck take is that you shouldn't remove the slurs and acting like they're a "flaw" in the text is disastrously wrongheaded. you're talking about a comic that is existentially steeped in early 2000s internet culture, full of highly specific memes and mannerisms, i mean the trolls themselves are just explicitly just Types Of Guy You'd See On AIM And Forums. oh but the slurs aren't part of that? you want to remove the slurs but you don't want to remove the "it's over 9000" jokes?

i think it's genuinely *pivotal* to homestuck's resonance that the characters start off saying slurs and then slowly stop as they get older. i get if younger readers just don't understand this but like, if you were on the internet in the 2000s chances are you said the r-word on the reg at the very least. is that a good thing? absolutely not. that's why we stopped doing it. part of the homestuck cast's narrative arc is about them evolving beyond their youthful teenaged edgelord roots, which are inextricable from the peak-webcomic postmodern irony they operate on. i LIKE that the cast grew up in a way that mirrored my own maturity, as i and a lot of other (white, probably amab) millennials started to realize that oops uhh actually other people with different experiences exist and when you say slurs (even "ironically") they're probably not gonna share a laugh with you. it's an ugly part of our history but it IS the history, and i don't think you can talk about the social justice movement of the 2010s without an awareness of the culture it was reacting to. and don't even get me started on how the dancestors fit into that equation!

there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be levied against the representation in homestuck, particularly its infrequent bouts of racism vis-a-vis HIC, and the sadly more frequent bouts of ableism vis-a-vis tavros-- criticisms that were the bread and butter of the Perfectly Generic Podcast back in its day. but to approach these deficiencies as flaws in the text that need to be "fixed"???? i just don't get it. we're perfectly capable of looking at "fixes" of roald dahl and mark twain books as flagrant historical revisionism, but because homestuck came out in living memory it's a different situation?? and this opens the door to the broader tendency of fix-it fanworks that seem to have this attitude that like, "homestuck" as such exists beyond the limitations of andrew hussie's imagination and can be "rescued" from her clutches. in practice i have a very live and let live attitude about fix-it projects, i'm done with discourse and drama, i just personally don't get it and feel like it's a misuse of creative energies. but then i'm sure they'd say much the same about godfeels, so,

wait i kinda ended up talking about post-2016 homestuck fandom anyway didn't i. oops

[thelogicalghost]

Some friends and I watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and I had forgotten how absolutely BONKERS and DELIGHTFUL this movie is.

It's an old-school Big Movie Musical adapted from a book by Ian Flemming - yes, THAT one, the James Bond author - and the first draft of the screenplay was written by Roald Dahl. It was turned into a Dick Van Dyke vehicle to follow on the success of Mary Poppins, and when Julie Andrews turned them down they hired someone who had also played the same Broadway roles as Andrews.

The whole movie is extremely silly and lighthearted, funny without being crass, and the songs are almost all really good and WILL get stuck in your head.

The remaster currently available on Amazon is surprisingly good quality, too. Aside from making a few green-screen scenes look even worse, overall it looks really sharp without looking cheap or weirdly colored.

Seriously, if you just want to turn your brain off and have a fun 2.5 hours, ideally with some friends, this is a great time.

[willameena]

13 books

What’s up readers?! How about a little show and tell? Answer these 13 questions, tag 13 lucky readers and if you’re feeling extra bookish add a shelfie! Let’s Go!

this is such a cute idea! thanks for the tag, @magnusbae <3 all your recs sound awesome!

Last book I read: the last one I completed was Machines Like Me, by Ian McEwan. I'm on the last chapter of 5 Tuesdays in Winter, by Lily King, right now, and it's excellent. Machines Like Me had a cool premise, but I thought it really fell flat and got bogged down in the hypotheticals of 80s British politics, which I don't know much about to begin with, and while I thought it was cool that it explored what could have been if Margaret Thatcher weren't elected PM, it seemed like the book could have just done without that entire subplot, as the premise was advanced AI. Anyways.

A book I recommend: Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk. A great movie, of course, but I love the book even more and my best friend recently started reading, at my recommendation so I'm very excited to hear her thoughts when she's done. I want to do a reread myself!

A book that I couldn't put down: Unfortunately, I don't have the amount of free time to be able to sit down and read uninterrupted. I haven't read an entire book in one day in a very long time, although I devoured them daily as a kid. In a less literal sense, Revenge of the Sith and Labyrinth of Evil. I have those downloaded to my phone, in the Kindle app, and I couldn't stop reading them. Having it on my phone made that easier to achieve, haha.

A book I've read twice or more: Again, I haven't done a reread of any books in a little while :( I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a few times though, pre-kids, when I had more time. Now, I prefer to move onto something new. It's one of my favorites, and the trilogy is so excellent.

A book on my TBR: I have quite a few that purchased from my favorite used book store that I haven't gotten to yet! Dune is one of them, and I'm excited to start that, although I think I'll read something shorter when I finish the book I'm currently on.

A book I've put down: I don't often put down a book I've started, just because I'll either hold out hope that it's going to get better, or I'll want to be able to explain in detail why I disliked it, haha. Sometimes, I'll put one down and return to it if I feel like it is too heavy for me at the time. I did try and read Lord of the Rings when I was a kid, and I just couldn't get into it... I'm hoping this doesn't make me any enemies lol

A book on my wish list: I really want a paper copy of Revenge of the Sith! I'd like paper copies of a few other Star Wars books that I have on the Kindle app, but that one's top of the list.

A favorite book from childhood: I was such an avid reader as a child! I didn't go anywhere without a book, or two. I loved A Wrinkle in Time, the Inkheart series, The Chronicles of Narnia, Roald Dahl's books, a book called Mandy, which was written by Julie Andrews. I loved Harry Potter, but everything that's happened has left a bad taste in my mouth.

A book you would give to a friend: The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Bell Jar, if they hadn't read any of those yet.

a book of poetry or lyrics that you own: If They Come for Us, by Fatimah Asghar, I can't recommend this enough!! It is absolutely gorgeous and very powerful. I believe they have also written a novel, which I haven't read yet. Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Falling up, by Shel Silverstein, which are my old copies from childhood and very worn and treasured <3 I have a book of Rupi Kaur poems as well.

a non-fiction book you own: quite a few! Spiritual Midwifery, Birth Without Fear, a couple books about Kurt Cobain, Anthony Keidis' memoir, Scar Tissue, a multitude of parenting books, a half marathon guide book, and some books in the "Highly Sensitive Person" series, which I really recommend for those who consider themselves a highy sensitive person

What are you currently reading: I've got 1 chapter left of 5 Tuesdays in Winter, which is a collection of short stories and has been a beautiful read. I'm also working through "The Highly Sensitive Parent" and "Half Marathon, You Can do it!" which sounds ridiculously corny, but is actually really informative and helpful, because I'm training for a half marathon

What are you planning on reading next: I think either Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon. My best friend bought it for me and said I would love it, so I'm guessing I'm gonna love it!

Soooo this was incredibly long and if anyone has read all of this, wow, haha. Thanks again for the tag @magnusbae this was super fun!

No pressure tagging: @cottonraincoat @sendpseuds @piecesofeden11 @wandering-not-lost04 @dragon-on-ice

@kenobster

@lesbianakins @tideswept @unspuncreature @sky-kenobye @betweensaintsandmonsters

@hausofroxann @kato-neimoidia

Also, a shelfie? A shelf selfie? A bookshelf picture? That's so adorable. I recently put up these shelves and while they don't hold all of my books, I really enjoy them and I am 100% taking the opportunity to show them off

[dynamitekansai]

The Harajuku Stars 🩵🩷🤍💚 Sukeban London Beauty by Pat mcgrath and Andrew Dahling using Starface Cyber Stars Hair by Eamonn Hughes 📸 Alex Pantling, GettyImages

[ealsistersart]

More of Tangled Titanic AU🚢💖

1st Drawing: New Dream as Elga Dahl and Fabrizio Rossi from Titanic deleted scene "Rose Visits Third Class".

2nd Drawing: Lance and Varian as Thomas Ryan and Jack Dawson from Titanic deleted scene "Rose Visits Third Class".

3th Drawing: Andrew/Caledon ✨bonus���

Sunshine☀

[brivu]

Andrew Dahling